Tanaya:

I’ve owned this book since 2014. Considering I had been so completely disappointed in the second book, I’m not quite sure why I thought buying the third book would be a good idea. At this point, I’ve completely forgotten everything that happens in the first two books, and so to read Reached I’m either going to have to do a series reread (which I really don’t want to do) or find some really detailed summaries to read up on and refresh my mind.

This is another book I’ve owned since 2014. I never really reach for classics, but when I do I mostly enjoy them. I think because Jane Eyre is a lot longer than the classics I have read, it stops me from choosing it to read. This year Jane Eyre is on my 18 books to read in 2018 list so this will finally be the year I read this (hopefully).

And another book I’ve owned since 2014 (in fact, all five books I’m choosing I’ve owned since 2014). I had a bad habit for a few years where I would buy all the books in the series even if I hadn’t read the first. The Chaos Walking trilogy was one of these series. I thought I would like these books a lot, and whilst the first was okay, by the second I wasn’t really invested. Even when I did a reread so I could finally read Monsters of Men, I never picked up Monsters of Men, and so it has remained unread all these years.

Every year I think to myself this will be the year I read some Brandon Sanderson… and then the year comes and goes and it still hasn’t happened. I have heard so many amazing things about the Mistborn series (and about all of Sanderson’s books) and I’m really looking forward to seeing what I think of them.

I bought this along with several other adult fiction titles one day because I felt like I may like to branch out and try something else to read other than YA fiction. Four years later and I still have not read any of the books I bought that day. I always reach for something else, even though those books, Burial Rites included, intrigue me so much.

I borrowed this one off my sister and she is still begging me for it back… THREE YEARS LATER! Oops… Should really hurry up on that one. (Normally when I borrow books I am significantly better at reading them!)

I’m even further behind in this series than Tanaya is! 😛 I really want to finish the series before the movie of The Knife of Never Letting Go comes out, and hopefully before Patrick Ness comes out for the Sydney Writers Festival!